1985_Big_Ten_baseball_tournament

1985 Big Ten baseball tournament

1985 Big Ten baseball tournament

Collegiate baseball tournament

The 1985 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from May 17 through 19. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the fifth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Minnesota won their second tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1985 NCAA Division I baseball tournament[3]

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Format and seeding

The 1985 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage within each division. The top seed from each division played the second seed from the opposite division in the first round. Ohio State and Minnesota claimed the second seeds from their respective divisions by tiebreakers.[3]

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Tournament

Upper round 1Upper finalFinal
1EMichigan10
2WMinnesota11
2WMinnesota8
2EOhio State5
1WIllinois2
2EOhio State3
2WMinnesota5—
2EOhio State3—
Lower round 1Lower final
2EOhio State3
1EMichigan11111EMichigan1
1WIllinois10

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[3]

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Most Outstanding Player

Jon Beckman was named Most Outstanding Player. Beckman was an outfielder for Minnesota.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. p. 101. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  2. [2]
    "College Baseball Conference Standings – 1985". Boyd's World. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  3. [3]
    2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 28, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
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